by Kate Etue | Entertainment
Documentaries are hot right now. Whether you’re watching President Obama narrate Our Great National Parks with your kids, baking in the schadenfreude of Bad Vegan, or learning about culture and history through movies like What Happened Miss Simone?, it’s...
by Kristen Chase | Photography
Should I be embarrassed that I, a 30-something mother of four, saw this Fujifilm Instax Mini Hello Kitty camera and let out a tween-level squeal? Possibly. But heck, who cares? This is freaking awesome. I’ve had a long standing luv-affair (yes, luv) with Hello...
by Kate Etue | Photography
I always swore I wouldn’t be that mom who said, “When I was a kid . . .” to her own kids all the time, but sure enough I’m explaining pay phones and cigarette lighters in the car to them. One of my favorite gone-by-the-wayside tech items from...
by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love
If you’re going to use the holiday weekend to catch up on some movies (i.e. free air conditioning), there’s a new family movie guide that’s definitely worth checking before you spend $140 on two tickets. (That’s close to the actual price,...
by Delilah S. Dawson | Photography
DIY photography just got more extreme and fun because now you can actually build your own camera. The hip kids at Lomography have piqued our geek with the Konstruktor DIY kit, which includes everything you need to build and decorate your own functional Lomography...
by Cool Mom Team | Travel
I first stumbled upon lomography back in the mid-’90s thanks to a super cool West Village shop that sold these wacky cameras with four lenses on them that I simply had to try. (Okay, so I bought one for a friend’s birthday gift and the party got cancelled...
by Jeana | Websites We Love
If you haven’t already heard, Disney Infinity is launching this summer. No, it’s not the next installment of Toy Story (to infinity and beyond!), but rather a completely new gaming platform that will use cool Disney figurines to launch their digital...
by Kristen Chase | Photography
While I was cleaning out my mom’s house this summer, I found a boatload of old 35mm film negatives and other than send them to a service that develops old photos, I had absolutely no idea what to do with them. Well, with this campaign on Kickstarter (update: and...
by Cool Mom Team | Entertainment
We all know by now that a lot of video on demand services leave a lot to be desired in the “current releases” genre. One time that doesn’t matter a lick: Halloween! The holiday where the best scary, creepy, or funny-creepy movies never really get...
